New research suggests a surprising factor in human longevity. A look at 200 years of birth records found that high solar activity in a person's birth year was correlated with a five-year reduction in lifespan. »1/12/15 12:39am 1/12/15 12:39am

Would you trade 22 minutes of your life for an hour of television viewing? (By comparison, a commonly cited statistic estimates the average shortening of lifespan from one cigarette to be 11 minutes.) Could catching up on your favorite TV shows really be slowly killing you? »8/16/11 11:26am 8/16/11 11:26am

By the end of this year, the human population is expected to reach seven billion people, just twelve years after we hit the six billion milestone. But how much more crowded is our planet going to get? Will we keep on expanding indefinitely, or are we approaching the upper limit? The current consensus is that we'll… »2/20/11 1:20pm 2/20/11 1:20pm

Heroes 360 is a lot more than your basic network half-assed attempt at a web presence for a show. This site for NBC's mutant soap opera is packed with original content like Heroes web comics, blogs, stories, and interviews. New stuff goes up every week, and this is only going to happen more now that the writer's… »12/28/07 10:00am 12/28/07 10:00am

A recent clinical trial involving several members of the Caenorhabditis elegans species in Seattle showed that the worms that given antidepressants lived up to 31% longer than their unmedicated brothers and sisters. Of course, the scientists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center hope to someday apply this… »11/26/07 9:45am 11/26/07 9:45am